Implement for indicating points of fall of game



Aug. 22, 1967 o. CERPELLI 3,336,673

IMPLEMENT FOR J INDICATING POINTS OF FALL OF GAME Filed Fb. 24, 1966 INVENTOR. BY Omzio Cev eHi ATTORNEYS v 3,336,673 IMPLEMENT FOR INDICATING POINTS OF FALL F GAME Orazio Cerpelli, 4 Via Giotto, Viareggio, Italy Filed Feb. 24, 1966, Ser. No. 529,859 6 Claims. (CI. 3346) The difliculties experienced in picking up the game killed are well known in shooting quarters, more particularly to shooters in shooting-boxes or lying in wait for game in any suitable place. It is necessary for the shooter, if the game is not to be abandoned, to reach at once the place of fall of a killed bird, and the continual going to and fro will involve a considerable loss of time, especially where the passage is more active.

Moreover, the appearance of a shooter concerned with the search, and therefore easily seen from a distance, will frighten the game which flies in the direction of the shooting-box.

In the case of a double shot, it often happens that one of the birds is lost, since the shooter in a hurried search at some distance from his hiding place, may easily lose sight of the landmarks that had clearly appeared to him from his hiding place.

The object of this invention is to overcome the above mentioned difiiculties by an equipment mainly formed of direction indicators which will enable a shooter to keep all points of fall under his control to pick up the birds at the end of a shooting party, or at least when the passage has slowed down and consequently, the trouble is reduced.

A direction indicator according to this invention will be described hereinafter by way of example, with reference to the accompanying drawing, wherein:

FIG. 1 is a longitudinal vertical section of an indicator ready for use;

FIG. 2 is a vertical cross-section of the indicator of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a top view of the indicator of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a bottom view of the indicator in the position shown in FIG. 2;

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the indicator of FIG. 1 as fastened to a cutaway branch of a tree, in a direction showing the point of fall of a killed bird.

The implement according to this invention comprises a member 1 of a rigid material, of preference synthetic unbreakable stamped resin in camouflaging colors, which includes a portion 2 in the form of a hollow cylinder, and two small tubes 3 projecting outwards from opposite portions of the surface of cylinder 2, a little below one end of the cylinder; the axes of the small tubes 3 are in alignment with each other normally to the axis of cylinder 2. The bottom of cylinder 2 has a central hole 4, and a small stud 5 projects upwards from the circumference of the 'hole. The lower end of cylinder 2 is a part-spherical surface, which engages the surface of a member 6 in the form of a sphere from which two equal portions have been cut away, one from the top and the other from the bottom, the upper and lower ends of member 6 being two equal and parallel circles. Each of these circles is the mouth of a cylindricaLrecess 7; the two recesses 7 are of the same shape, also they are intercommunicating through a short and narrow bore 8 in member 6. The lower portion of member 6 engages the upper surface, which is of part-spherical form, of a cylindrical part 9 United States Patent 0 integral with a disc 10. The cylindrical part 9 has a narrow axial bore 11 followed downwardly by a wide cylindrical axial recess 12 extending through the whole thickness of disc 10 and a lower portion of part 9. A small stud 13 identical with stud 5, projects downwardly from the top of recess 12, and a rubber ring 14, which is engaged by studs 5 and 13 and is inserted in holes 4, 8 and 11, keeps all parts close together.

Two short studs 15 project upwards from the upper surface of disc 10, and a number of longer studs 16 project downwards from the lower face.

The implement as above described is made use of as follows:

A shooter, according to the shooting day as anticipated, will take a number of indicators with him, and will fasten each of them to a support, which may be a stick strongly fixed in the earth, or a reed, a branch, or the like, according to the surroundings of his hiding place, in a suitable position at hand. To do so, he will fasten disc 10 of each indicator on its own support, by turning a rubber ring 17 (FIG. 5) about the support and engaging it on studs 15 on disc 10.

Initially, the small tubes 3 are arranged horizontally, to recall that the indicators have not yet been used.

During the shooting party, the shooter will direct one indicator towards each of the points of fall of birds, by sighting through the holes in tubes 3. At the end of the party, or even at a moment when the passage has slowed down, the shooter may pick up the killed game at his full ease.

It is understood that the implement as described and shown in the drawing is only an example of embodiment of the invention, the structural peculiarities of which may be changed without departing from the scope of the invention. It may more particularly be noted that member 1, here shown of cylindrical form, may have a parallelepipedal form; the spherical member may be substituted by articulated connections of different types; a different member may be substituted for ring 14 to connect member 1 and disc 10 together. Furthermore, the shooter, instead of fastening the indicators to their supports in his hiding place, may previously fasten a number of indicators on a single support, and the support thus arranged may be taken to the hiding place in order that all the indicators may be ready for use when the shooter reaches the shooting place. Other changes may be obvious to those skilled in the art, all falling within the spirit and essential features of this invention.

What I claim is:

1. An apparatus adapted to indicate the point of fall of killed game or the like, comprising sighting means, base support means, a spherical element positioned between said sighting means and said base support means, a bore in said spherical element, and elastic means coupled to said base and said sighting means and passing through said bore means to hold said base support means, said sighting means and said spherical element together, so that the sighting means may be positioned on the surface of the spherical element.

2. An apparatus in accordance with claim 1, wherein said spherical element has two recesses extending from opposite surfaces of said spherical element to said bore.

3. An apparatus in accordance with claim 2, wherein said recesses are cylindrical.

3 4 4. An apparatus in accordance with claim 1, wherein References Cited said base support means includes a plurality of studs for UNITED STATES PATENTS t' t supp mg Sald appara us 3,133,353 5/1964 Williams 33 50 5. An apparatus in accordance with claim 1, wherein said elastic means is a rubber ring. 5 3,147,553 9/1964 Cogswen 33-46 6. An apparatus in accordance with claim 1 wherein said base support means and said sighting means include LEONARD FORMAN Pnmary Examiner angular surfaces for mating with the surface of said I. M. FREED, Examiner. spherical element. 

1. AN APPARATUS ADAPTED TO INDICATE THE POINT OF FALL OF KILLED GAME OR THE LIKE, COMPRISING SIGHTING MEANS, BASE SUPPORT MEANS, A SPHERICAL ELEMENT POSITIONED BETWEEN SAID SIGHTING MEANS AND SAID BASE SUPPORT MEANS, A BORE IN SAID SPHERICAL ELEMENT, AND ELASTIC MEANS COUPLED TO SAID BASE AND SAID SIGHTING MEANS AND PASSING 